Family Dollar Stores ripoff Charrolet North Carolina

I understand reading this about the bank deposits, family dollar policy is not to make any deposits at night, only during the day, on weekend depositsm you have to go to bank and get your slips, in each state and bank is different, true, it was neglience on his part for taking them home, but for him to get arrested, i am kind of leary on that, when you get arrested, it is serious, it is out for everyone to know,the just thing was to terminated, but to have him arrested, if i were him, i would get a good lawyer, and for the DM to make a gesture to pay it back, I would be like this, I didnt take it, Prove it, and I am not giving you any money, that does not go with company policy to get the DM to set up a date and time to get money for a deposit, i owuld say, well lets see what my Lawyer would suggest, if you give that DM or LP money, YOU are admitting that you stoled that money, i have worked for this company, and i have worked for dollar general, try working in Atlanta!!!!!,

we had to run a store in atlanta, we had to have police gurards escort us to the bank with deposits, if he dropped the deposit out of his back pocket on parking lot, and he never known, well do you think anyone will go and take it to the police station and say: here we found this? Most likely No... I see from the guy, he admits the gulit of neglience, but to be arrested, and Family Dollar, about 70-80 hrs a week, you need to read up on that, the scheduler says 52 hrs a week, yes you have to schedule per workload, but i have done up to 100 hrs, even when your sales are 45-50% up from last year, and have a great inventory, pluse low turnover, guess what, i had done sales 55,00 or more a week,
a low volume store with bad turnover,bad inventory,low sales 45%decrease for Comp sales, was getting 175.oo more in payroll than i was, payroll has alot to do with it, I am not trying to lash out at you ,but wake up, dear, these people care about money only, not you or public, I have dones this work for over 16 years, and now i have seen it, i rather work for a bigger Corp. , becuase they have to go BY US&STATE LAWS, family dollar, and dollar general in my opinon, skate around them

bank bags are sealed and dropped at my store per company policy , which is every morning , no one is to go to the bank after dark and never alone!!! this is what we have been told by dm's and rvp, and homeoffice. and there is not a company out there that would allow you to take a deposit home with you and why would you? that is just asking for trouble , what is your home burned down with the company money in it or you were robbed then it is your fault that the money was not in the bank, also what is the pupose of having a safe in your store if you are not going to use it? we get messages all the time that say there are only 3 places that money is to be, one the safe , 2 the bank and 3 the registers.

i am sorry you got fired but you are wrong to blame the company because you lost their money. and if you took the job knowing that you would have to drive an hour to get to work then how is that the companies fault? you work 70 to 80 hours a week, who makes out your schedule for your store? i make my own and i only work 55 to 60 hours and could work less, as long as you have compentant people who work for you and they pull their weight then you have no problems , you are only as good as the people who work for you. no i am not brainwashed by family dollar i just look at the whole picture and see it for what it is, i have worked for them 5 years the first time and have been back a year this time and i love my job.

i have also worked for wal mart and dollar general and a merchandiser in almost every store around and i still prefer family dollar and what i do as store manager

The deposit bags are plastic but they are also securely sealed. Once the money is placed inside the bag, you seal it. It has to be cut open. I agree that this isn't exactly the best way of doing it, but I see the reasoning. The deposits are almost always made AFTER bank hours, meaning that the manager rarely has contact with an actual bank employee, therefore never gets the bank bags back. The bank we used would not provide the lockable cloth bags for us for this reason.

As for taking the deposits home... I can't count the number of times my husband did the same thing and while I may be wrong, I don't ever remember any company policy prohibiting it. The only policy I remember in regard to the deposits was that they were NEVER to be left in the store at night.

One of the stores my husband managed used a bank that had absolutely NO lighting near their deposit drop in a high crime rate area. My husband NEVER made that deposit at night. He ALWAYS left early the next morning to deposit it in daylight. His DM was well aware of this fact and there was never any issues with it.

The problem here is that the deposit was LOST! I don't know what volume this store had, but my husband's lowest volume store always had at least $3500 in CASH on the slow days and the in the highest volume store he managed, it was never less that $6000 cash per day. That isn't including the checks. That is a lot of money and I don't know any company that would take that lightly. The arrest... that's the hard part for me. The reason is that in the experiences we had with Family Dollar, they don't charge people without extremely concrete evidence and sometimes even with it, unless maybe that varies by DM's. I don't know. But I do know that we caught two assistant managers stealing red handed. One of them was videotaped taking merchandise from the store and the spare till had been emptied the same night. My husband was instructed not to fire her yet but not to allow her to open or close. Two days later Loss Prevention came down from North Carolina and confronted her. She admitted to the thefts! She was fired, marked non-rehireable, and that was that. They didn't press charges on her. Now granted, in that situation, we're talking $100 in cash (well, not quite, she left the pennies and nickels) and about $250 in merchandise. However, another assistant also failed to make a deposit! The deposit came up missing on a day that my husband was helping the DM transfer merchandise from one store to another and afterwards, we had supper with the DM. Otherwise, he might have been fired also! But the assistant manager was confronted and swore she dropped it in the night deposit box, yet the bank cameras seemed to have missed her stop at the bank!!! She wasn't charged either, and that was on a Friday night, with a $9000 bank deposit! The evidence was there! But the possibility that the cashier that night took it prevented them from having her charged. Of course she was fired and non-rehireable, but she wasn't arrested.

I don't know the deposit policies of Family Dollar, but it has been over 20 years since I worked for a company that allowed you to take deposit money to the bank "after dark". Fazoli's, Taco Bell, McDonalds, Reebok and Blockbuster have for years required that the night deposit be secured in the in-store safe until the following morning. Then the morning manager would verify the deposit and take it to the bank. Some places required that a mid-day deposit be taken to the bank to limit the amount of cash in the store overnight. But those had to been done during daylight hours only.

It has also been several years since I have seen a store with the lockable cloth bags. I have used nothing but the plastic bags with the tamper proof seals in the last 20 years. Does any business even still use those old cloth bags?

So I think the "comparative negligence" would only apply if Family Dollar requires that the night deposit be dropped at the bank after closing, instead of stored in the safe until the following morning, as taking a deposit to the bank late at night is inherently dangerous. Expecially in a place like Philadelphia. But as I said, I don't know their policy for deposits.

first off. i worked 70 to 80 hours a week. i drove 1 hour to get there. 7 days a week and then after closing the store i would go to a nursing home to be with my mom after her stroke in september of last year. i was wore out and tired and made a mistake.

first off. i worked 70 to 80 hours a week. i drove 1 hour to get there. 7 days a week and then after closing the store i would go to a nursing home to be with my mom after her stroke in september of last year. i was wore out and tired and made a mistake.

first off. i worked 70 to 80 hours a week. i drove 1 hour to get there. 7 days a week and then after closing the store i would go to a nursing home to be with my mom after her stroke in september of last year. i was wore out and tired and made a mistake.

first off. i worked 70 to 80 hours a week. i drove 1 hour to get there. 7 days a week and then after closing the store i would go to a nursing home to be with my mom after her stroke in september of last year. i was wore out and tired and made a mistake.

"i made a mistake but i did not steal a deposit."

But they have absolutely no way of knowing that. On the contrary, what they DO know is that you have admitted to violating company policy on multiple occasions, your judgement is nonexistant, your decision making ability is poor and your ability to keep track of important matters is poor.

The ONLY way I would let you off without being arrested is that you would bring me the cash plus the register tape from that day. Don't care how you get the cash, but I would give you until Noon to produce it. Either way, you're fired. The question is, do you sense to keep from going to jail.

And just for the record, if I did NOT approach it in this manner, then I'd be the next one fired, and rightfully so.

"i made a mistake but i did not steal a deposit."

But they have absolutely no way of knowing that. On the contrary, what they DO know is that you have admitted to violating company policy on multiple occasions, your judgement is nonexistant, your decision making ability is poor and your ability to keep track of important matters is poor.

The ONLY way I would let you off without being arrested is that you would bring me the cash plus the register tape from that day. Don't care how you get the cash, but I would give you until Noon to produce it. Either way, you're fired. The question is, do you sense to keep from going to jail.

And just for the record, if I did NOT approach it in this manner, then I'd be the next one fired, and rightfully so.

"i made a mistake but i did not steal a deposit."

But they have absolutely no way of knowing that. On the contrary, what they DO know is that you have admitted to violating company policy on multiple occasions, your judgement is nonexistant, your decision making ability is poor and your ability to keep track of important matters is poor.

The ONLY way I would let you off without being arrested is that you would bring me the cash plus the register tape from that day. Don't care how you get the cash, but I would give you until Noon to produce it. Either way, you're fired. The question is, do you sense to keep from going to jail.

And just for the record, if I did NOT approach it in this manner, then I'd be the next one fired, and rightfully so.

Cory, good point, but allow me to give a different perspective on the negligence issue.

The law recognizes a pair of doctrines applicable to this situation: comparative negligence and contributory negligence. These doctrines are not univeraslly accepted (not the law in all states), but every lawyer and first year law student is intimately familiar with them. The difference between the two is relevant only to how damages in a lawsuit are calculated, and that's not what we're talking about here, so you can consider them to be the same thing.

Comparative negligence applies when both of the parties to a lawsuit have behaved in a negligent manner. One may have been more irresponsible than the other, but the incident at issue would not have ocurred but for the negligence of BOTH parties.

With that brief (and by no means comprehensive) background, consider the way that this store handled its deposits. A plastic bag with no lock when the bank provides, free of charge, a lockable cloth bag. A single employee drops off the deposit at closing time, whereas most companies either require such deposits to be made in pairs or in the morning (because there is an inherent danger in making such deposits at night).

It seems to me that, by their grossly irresponsible deposit procedure, the store exposed its employee not only to the danger involved in making a solo night drop, but made any larceny (by an outside party) all the more fruitful by not securing the deposit in a lockable cloth bag. Under the circmstances, the employee MAY have made the best decision in taking the deposit home and waiting until the morning. She probably did make the best decision per her own safety.

The store put her in this predicament, she made a decision, and it ended up bad. Is she responsible? Possibly. But the store and its shoddy procedure seem to have played a significant part as well. As I see it, if you completely fail to take steps, considered standard by most businesses, to secure your property, you assume the risk that you will lose your property.

ok i am stupid. yes i should of not taken the deposit home but i did. i am not arguing the fact i was fired i am arguing the fact i was fired and arrested. i made a mistake but i did not steal a deposit. i worked for the company for over a year. like i said it was not the first time i took a deposit home. i looked over the company's money like it was my own and thought i was doing right. i guess not. but they automaticly found me guilty without a trial and that is not right. again i am stupid and not looking for pitty but they should not have made me guilty without a trial.

Sounds to me like you were terminated for violation of company policy. The bank deposit should have been made that night. You could have walked to your car and then driven to the bank. Never take anything home. Been there, done that. I'll take you at your word that the deposit got lost, but it was through your negligence, that it did.

You took the deposit home?? What were you thinking? I doubt there is any company that you would not have been fired from for taking the deposit home. Why even put your self in that kind of position. You failed to make the deposit, you failed to follow company guidlines on proper cash handling procedures, you lost the deposit. No pity here. you deserved to be fired.

our deposits are put in plastic bags not in cloth bags with a lock. second i put the deposit in my back pocket so i could cover it with my shirt. i locked the store up and was walking to the bank. i noticed too many people so i decided to go to my car instead and take the deposit home and make it first thing in the morning which i have done so many times before. somewhere between the car and my house and the car i lost it. i do not remember taking it out of my pocket. i searched every where but could not find it.

How exactly did you "lose" the deposit? Let's see...the money bag is handed to you and you go to the bank and hand it to the teller. Either that, or you used the key and put the bag in the night drop at the bank. In that case, the bank has a video of you opening the drop door and putting the bag in. The deposit bags are all locked so the reciepts won't fall out or get "lost". So again, how exactly did you "lose" the deposit.

How exactly did you "lose" the deposit? Let's see...the money bag is handed to you and you go to the bank and hand it to the teller. Either that, or you used the key and put the bag in the night drop at the bank. In that case, the bank has a video of you opening the drop door and putting the bag in. The deposit bags are all locked so the reciepts won't fall out or get "lost". So again, how exactly did you "lose" the deposit.

How exactly did you "lose" the deposit? Let's see...the money bag is handed to you and you go to the bank and hand it to the teller. Either that, or you used the key and put the bag in the night drop at the bank. In that case, the bank has a video of you opening the drop door and putting the bag in. The deposit bags are all locked so the reciepts won't fall out or get "lost". So again, how exactly did you "lose" the deposit.

How exactly did you "lose" the deposit? Let's see...the money bag is handed to you and you go to the bank and hand it to the teller. Either that, or you used the key and put the bag in the night drop at the bank. In that case, the bank has a video of you opening the drop door and putting the bag in. The deposit bags are all locked so the reciepts won't fall out or get "lost". So again, how exactly did you "lose" the deposit.